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COSMOS for the Detection and Characterization of Exoplanets

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COSMOS for the Detection and Characterization of Exoplanets

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Exoplanets are planets that orbit a star other than the Sun , and their detection and characterization has been at the forefront within astronomy for multiple years. To date there has been greater than 4000 exoplanets confirmed across a range of different methods, with more than 5000 additional exoplanet candidates . Over the next decade, characterizing habitable exoplanets will be one of the key research areas within astronomy, with the goal to find Earth-like planets . Although there are multiple detection methods, transit photometry and radial velocity are the most common techniques for exoplanet detection/characterization, with each method discovering 71.3% and 22.9% of exoplanets respectively.

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